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John Hendrickson

@johnhendrickson.bsky.social
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Author of LIFE ON DELAY | Contributing Writer at The Atlantic | Stories in NYT, NY mag, Esquire, Rolling Stone | Working on a doc! | johnhendrickson.org

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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I spent much of the spring and early summer getting to know Ben Cornish, who makes his living impersonating Leonardo DiCaprio. Why does he do it? Why do people pay him for it? And are any of us living truly unique lives? www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In today’s paper! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...
Jack Johnson in The New York Times
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hung out with Jack Johnson in pursuit of the secret to happiness: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...
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Stressed? Overwhelmed? Have You Tried Being Jack Johnson Instead?
His frozen-in-time anthems, odes to going with the flow, are the soundtrack to a summer of “hopecore.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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We’ll Never See Anything Quite Like That Again
A Knicks team defined by its tenacity found a way to win in the most exhilarating way possible.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
RIP!
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Honestly nothing beats it
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Nirvanna the band the show the movie
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Still can't believe Cola isn't a bigger band www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMGG...
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Cola - Fainting Spells (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Fire Talk
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"The smartphone, for many, seems to be a sort of failed lucid dreaming mechanism." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
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Opinion | The Mind-Altering Power of Lucid Dreaming
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
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The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Listen, I may not be part of the solution here in any fundamental way,” he said. “But I’m not part of the problem. And that’s something.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
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Can a Journalist Be a Celebrity Anymore?
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Ellen @elcush.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
for the April issue, I wrote about my amazing grandmother, the forgotten women pilots of World War II, and the nature of progress: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
What more could you want www.curbed.com/article/robe...
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Robert Frank and June Leaf’s Bleecker Street Studio Is for Sale
The artist couple first moved to the building in the 1970s but left plenty intact from its SRO days.
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
71 in NYC. In some sense you have to admire this absolute unit
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"It’s appalling to me that I even have to defend myself against a television show. These are not creative embellishments of personality. They are assertions about conduct — and they are false." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
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Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
George AI is giving David Strathairn
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report
Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
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No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
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Jenna Laine @jennalaine.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Powerful words from KC Concepcion: “I wanna be a role model for those who may be scared to speak up, who may be afraid and not confident in yourself. … Don’t let a[n] outside person’s thoughts, opinions get in the way of you being great, of you achieving something in life.” ❤️
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Longreads @longreads.com · 02/03/2026
"But Tom [Junod] doesn’t write; he excavates. He digs for people’s full, messy truth on the page. Who leaps at the opportunity to do that to those he cherishes most?" @johnhendrickson.bsky.social for Esquire www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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Tom Junod Finally Reckons with What It Means to Be a Man
In a long list of classic stories, the legendary magazine writer helped teach readers what masculinity looks like in the 21st century. To write his first book, he had to confront the man who first tau...
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Lindsey's substack is one of my favorites, what a thrill to pop up there this morning
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 18/02/2026
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Is Actually Here, and It’s Not Terrible
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Max Rivlin-Nadler @maxrn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city. “This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.
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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“There’s a recognition of people’s pain that you don’t have unless you’ve been through some extraordinary pain yourself,” @bronwendickey.bsky.social tells @johnhendrickson.bsky.social about @tomjunod.bsky.social.
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Tom Junod Finally Reckons with What It Means to Be a Man
In a long list of classic stories, the legendary magazine writer helped teach readers what masculinity looks like in the 21st century. To write his first book, he had to confront the man who first tau...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/02/2026
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 19/02/2026
The doctor Jeremy Boal helped convince Governor Kathy Hochul to pass New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act. He may be one of the first people to use it.
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How One Doctor Changed New York’s Right-to-Die Law
Jeremy Boal helped pass the bill. He may be one of the first people to use it.
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
For @nymag.com, I drove upstate to meet Dr. Jeremy Boal, who is devoting his final time on earth to bringing nuance to the charged public debate around Medical Aid in Dying: nymag.com/intelligence...
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How One Doctor Changed New York’s Right-to-Die Law
Jeremy Boal helped pass the bill. He may be one of the first people to use it.
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Barry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 19/02/2026
My friend @johnhendrickson.bsky.social has written an honest, beautiful Esquire profile of journalist Tom Junod, whom you might know for his stories about Mister Rogers or the 9/11 Falling Man. The article explores masculinity, secrets, and betrayal, and it's told with John's big open heart.
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Tom Junod Finally Reckons with What It Means to Be a Man
In a long list of classic stories, the legendary magazine writer helped teach readers what masculinity looks like in the 21st century. To write his first book, he had to confront the man who first tau...
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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
When I wanted to write my first book, Tom Junod kindly offered to provide a blurb for my proposal (he was a fan of my covers blog). I had no real public profile and have no doubt his stamp of approval helped me get it published. Never met the guy but will be forever grateful. Excited for his book.
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thanks Feed Me! www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Mini-thread: A few months ago my old boss Michael Sebastian texted and asked if I’d be up for a rather meta freelance assignment: an Esquire profile of one of Esquire’s greatest profilers, Tom Junod. (1/3...)
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I wrote about the time Jesse Jackson brought the movement to Sesame Street. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
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When Jesse Jackson Came to ‘Sesame Street’: ‘I Am! Somebody!’
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 17/02/2026
thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery.

We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended.

So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.Harris: Do you personally have hope that there will be payment for that legacy of slavery?

Jackson: The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with.
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Unadulterated joy
A poster for Nirvana the band the show the movie
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Arguing intelligence & adjacent traits are biologically determined served a clear function for Epstein, who treated women as subordinate. It’s equally unsurprising that the powerful people he cultivated might come up with a natural, objective explanation for their perch at the top of society"
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The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race
The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
spent some time in Chicago, and also at a very nice library at Yale, trying to understand JB Pritzker www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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What being a billionaire scion taught JB Pritzker about standing up to one
Few national Democrats have pushed back as forcefully against Trump’s authoritarian crackdown. There’s a reason for that.
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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My first cover story at @nymag.com! I went to Utah to figure out how everything got so Mormon: www.thecut.com/article/morm...
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Do You Have a Moment to Talk About How Mormons Conquered Pop Culture?
How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets.
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking
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Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen
Prue Leith
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Met Sam as an intern at Esquire roughly a decade ago. He was so talented beyond his years then and that's even more true now. Any outlet would be lucky to have Sam and all the other Post journos on the market today
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🧅🥯 @nationalsliker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Unbelievable
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Republicans who have known Nancy Mace for years are increasingly worried about her. But why is she like this? A number of scoops and new details here, including her recently departed campaign chief going on the record to call for her to leave electoral politics altogether: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Nancy Mace Is Not Okay
“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.
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Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else
The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Man. RIP Dan McQuade. First met him as an intern at Philly Weekly. An effortlessly and endlessly funny dude. Fuck cancer
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 27/01/2026
New video analysis from the Times: “A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.”
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Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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Maria Langholz @marialangholz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
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